Manual exposure? Take a reading from a grey card, or overexpose 1 stop the
back of your (ungloved) caucasian hand.
Or measure snow with hilite spot with 3 or 4 & save reading.
+2 would be better with auto (depending on 0ccurence of dark stuff in
pix). You should push process 1 stop.
Tom
On Monday, March 18, 2002 at 10:14, Daniel J. Mitchell
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] exposure comp. for non-grey scenes" saying:
> I was just out shooting TOPE stuff, and shot a whole lot of shots of
> basically large white mountains against large white skies. ( (West)Castle
> Mountain, southern Alberta -- pretty much your classic steeps and deeps
> hill, lots of fun, _lots_ of snow, though my legs hurt a lot today).
>
> I tried to work out which way to compensate for the fact that the camera
> thinks the whole world is 18 0rey, and after flipping back and forth in my
> mind, I wound up setting everything to +1. I'm not sure if this was right or
> not, so before I put this in for processing, could someone confirm if this
> was correct, or if I'm going to have to hope for sufficient film latitude?
>
> (reasoning there was:
>
> camera wants to make everything 18 0rey
> world is actually white
> so the camera's going to try and expose the white into a 18 0rey scene
> so the camera's going to try and make the white too dark
> so I want to give more light to the film
> so I set the exp.comp dial to +, to force longer exposures.
>
> At the end of the day, I had a horrible feeling that somewhere along the
> line I'd got things backwards..)
>
> thanks,
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